The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-01-06
A NEW JERSEY ToBoGGAN CLUB.
lads and Lasses Taking q SIide-SensS
lions of Modified Rapture"

lads and IasSes Taking o Slide@Seuso
lions of Modified Rapture"
The toboggan slide at Orange, N. j.,
consists of two rows of posts that become
lines of red flags by day and of fire and
coal oil smoke by night. Between these
runs long trough that looks like grain
chute q mile long. This wanders down
long hill, across little valley, and up
smaller hill 1t is filled half full of loose
snow. The participants in the sport,
with their toboggan, are fed in at the
upper end, and in DIE process of time
are shot out of tho lower end. Then they
climb up to the top, and the operation is
repeated.
The toboggan resembles blackboard
without wheels. turned up in front.
Those of the Essex County club were
of maple and hickory. The Indian
article is put together with catgut; the
American imitation with rivets. The
more luxurious ones have cushions. To
thoroughly .njoy tobo-ganing one must
be gotten uAin correct toboggan costume.
The outfit al the club members consists
of knit cap with tassel, warm tunic-
like garmens with big hood, knicker-
bockers, leggsngs and moccasins. The
costume for women is similar, with the
customary substitution of a short skirt
for the knickeFbockers, and a greater ex.
ercise of taste in cut and color.
The mode of procedure the other
night was as follows: The toboggan was
put into the end of the chute, which
came up to square platform, like a
spout into a well-curb. The bow-oars.
man-so to speak-sat cross-legged, with
his knees resting ON the dashboard. He
seized the ropes and braced himself. No
| sat down in the same fashion. She
clutched No. 1 by the shoulders and
murmured that they would die together
No. 3 did likewise. The steersmaE
doubled up his left leg and sat on it
| trailing the other behind in much the
same manner that the rudder is appended
to a canalboat. When the starter saw
the last party disappear over the brow o.
the hill, he said Sol" and go they die
with rush.
When the steersman put the helm hare
a-port he kicked up perfect cloud O.
snow. The sharp wind and the sharpe
particles of snow smote the riders in the
face. The lamps and people hoated by
in confused mass. Everything fadet
and grew indistinct except the con
seriousness that the riders were shoot
ing through space and snow witt
q gentle, undulating motion, with
out jolt or jar. When the steers
man understood his business tn
toboggan kept in the middle Of the road
When he didn't it carromed first on on
side of the trough and then on the other
but it couldn't go astray, neither coul
it run into convenient lamp post
There was none of the rumblin., an
humping that accompanies ride on tn
double runner" of New England or tn
less pretentious ~bob-sled" of Pennsy
vania. There was no noise to tell no,
fast the toboggan was going. The sense
tions combined all the delights Of fallin
down, down through unlimited space
without the drawback of bringing u
against something hard. When the e1
perience is ventured in any other tina
the regulation suit, it is case of mod
fed rapture" The riders hat blows of
he has faint sense of being out of place
and a young geyser of snow spouts u
each sleeve to meet and mingle som,
where in the neighborhood of the bacl
bone.-New York Tribune.